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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / January 2005Pale Male/Lola News
A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the lovely couple! http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/manhattan.hawks.ap/index.html Jill Awww, such good news -- thanks for posting this, Jill. Christine > A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the lovely > couple! > > http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/manhattan.hawks.ap/index.html > > Jill > A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the lovely > couple! > > http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/manhattan.hawks.ap/index.html > > Jill That's great news. Thank you Jill. Jeanette >A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the lovely >couple! > >http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/manhattan.hawks.ap/index.html thanks for the update, and glad to hear they decided to return.  SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html >> A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the >> lovely couple! >> >> http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/manhattan.hawks.ap/index.html > > thanks for the update, and glad to hear they decided to return. It's never certain, but birds are creatures of habit. I had my doubts but apparently they moved on things quickly enough for the pair to decide 'home is where the heart is'. And their heart, for whatever reason, is on a high rise ledge in NYC :) Jill >>> A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the >>> lovely couple! [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >is where the heart is'. And their heart, for whatever reason, is on a high >rise ledge in NYC :) It's a great place for them. PM originally tried to settle *in* Central Park, which is where he does his hunting. But the birds there alerted to the presence of a predator, and he was constantly mobbed and harassed by crows and blue jays. He and Lola can scan the park from their ledge, and dip into the park to hunt at will. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the lovely >couple! > >http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/manhattan.hawks.ap/index.html > >Jill Thanks again Jill, for taking the trouble of keeping up with these lovely birds. I have been in and out this past week. I'm so glad to see how things are turning out. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >> A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the >> lovely couple! http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/manhattan.hawks.ap/index.html >> Jill > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh > My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com No problem, Theresa! Birding is one of my hobbies so yep, I'm interested! With the ice last week (and eeek! it was 73F yesterday!) I've had some interesting winter friends come to my patio (and Persia is loving chattering at them!). No hawks, though I did spot a huge owl on my fence once. That suckers wingspan was easily 6 feet across when it took off - literally took my breath away! Jill >>> A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the >>> lovely couple! [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >suckers wingspan was easily 6 feet across when it took off - literally took >my breath away! Those big raptors are all the more amazing when you get close enough to realize that they make NO SOUND AT ALL. Absolutely silent. <brrrrr!> Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >>No problem, Theresa! Birding is one of my hobbies so yep, I'm >>interested! With the ice last week (and eeek! it was 73F [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >to realize that they make NO SOUND AT ALL. Absolutely silent. ><brrrrr!> Back when I was in college, I worked as a security guard at a factory next to the Cumberland River here in Nashville, Tennessee. On one very cold, very still winter night, I saw a snowy owl (http://tinyurl.com/6yjz5) with a six or seven foot wingspan flying down the river, only 10 feet above the water. It went by only 50 feet away from me, but there wasn't any sound. I was surprised to see the owl, as I had thought that type lived only in the Arctic, and Nashville is on a latitude with Morocco. I called a biologist the next day, who told me that, at times when the supply of rabbits and other small game is scarce, snowy owls have been seen as far south as the Gulf of Mexico, 250 miles or so further south than Nashville. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >as far south as the Gulf of Mexico, 250 miles or so further south >than Nashville. I remember seeing a nature progrtam about owls, in which some very intrepid scientists were trying to count snowy owl chicks in their nests, and getting a pretty intense battering from a frantic owl parent. Yikes. I let other people do *that* kind of bird watching. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > >>> A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the > >>> lovely couple! [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > to realize that they make NO SOUND AT ALL. Absolutely silent. > <brrrrr!> They aren't incapable of it, but I must say I found it disillusioning when I actually heard the US national bird, the magnificent bald eagle, make its mousy squeak. >>>>> A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the >>>>> lovely couple! [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > when I actually heard the US national bird, the magnificent bald > eagle, make its mousy squeak. They don't have much reason to make magnificent sounds - after all, what is gonna tackle an eagle? Jill (whose tiny lovebird makes all kinds of loud noises) >> >>> A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the >> >>> lovely couple! [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >when I actually heard the US national bird, the magnificent bald eagle, >make its mousy squeak. I was really speaking of their flight. Owls are particularly silent. And I saw a red-tail in a local park bouncing around very conspicuously from branch to branch (she was big), but not making a sound. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >>> A couple of days late but here it is... and Happy New Year to the >>> lovely couple! [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Jill I love birding too, and this is why I didn't want any cats to adopt me. Too late now. I stock the birdtable only when I know both the cats are in. As I was feeding the chickens this morning, a female sparrowhawk tried to snatch a collared dove out of a tree a few feet away. This set all my chickens off squawking their alarm calls. Collared doves are not particularly good fliers. It took off with the sparrowhawk after it and disappeared behind a stand of trees two gardens away. I don't give it any chance at all. Tweed |
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